The mega bookstore, Chapters, with a latte and a credit card I don't have to pay off.
A beach on a sunny but not hot day. Walking along the waterline looking at shells, polished stones and enjoying the water washing my bare feet.
In bed, with a really good book, all snuggled up and warm, on a cold winter night.
Waiting for a bus, luggage already loaded, talking to other people waiting to re-board for the trip out to Vancouver, BC.
Outside our old house in Scarborough, all my sisters and my brother, making one of our great forts in the ditch after the snowplough has just gone by.
Again outside our old house, in the Spring, just after a huge, heavy rain storm. That tree with the big leaves has shed most of them again. We are all getting leaves, sticks, and walnut shells from inside the house so we can make them all float down the overflowing waterlogged ditch. Racing along to see which ones make it through the tunnel under the driveway.
At the site of a great old, abandoned farmhouse with all the elaborate trimmings of gingerbread, stone work and iron fence and so on. A stone house with one wall caving in a little and the roof sloping down, sliding off it's foundation as erosion takes hold.
Driving in the car after getting tons of photos of the abandoned farmhouse, my shoes are muddy and I'm trying not to touch my skin with my fingers cause I'm sure I touched some weed that's making me itchy. Ahead a few minutes down the road is the Tim Horton's I will stop at to clean up and get coffee for the rest of the trip home.
Playing euchre with all the family just as we used to for family dinners with the Grandparents, Uncle and Aunts when all the Grandparents were still alive.
Going out to a movie and the second hand bookstore with my nephew. Spending most of a day laughing with him and doing not much of anything.
Listening to the little nieces laughing and not just sitting in front of computers or televisions and babysitting themselves.
Having a romantic week away with someone special. Someone who will still be around for another romantic week away a year from then.
At the Morningside Mall with Angela, a friend I have not seen since high school, having coffee and conversation.
8 comments:
what a great list! i may have to 'borrow' this idea sometime! happy TT!
The imagery in these 13 is amazing... reminds me of things past and events I would like to recapture. (Making snow forts was one! We used to make tunnels, which I believe is forbidden now).
The snow forts sound pretty amazing!
The snow forts in ditches are forbidden here now too. Too many of them were either caving in or the snow plough would come by again and kids would be hurt cause no one knew they were there.
Funny how kids used to do so many dangerous things and now they wrap them in cotton and keep them in front of a TV.
Lots of those sound good to me!!! :)
Yes! Bookstores are always of the good.
I love the description of the abandoned farm house. And the nieces laughing :)
those are awesome ideas! I think I'll seek some of those places out. the imagery/writing really is beautiful.
"a credit card I don't have to pay off" - you mean a gift certificate? ;) i guess it would have to be a bottomless one :)
Morningside mall is changing big time! I'll take a picture on my way 2 work tomorrow. Thought of you as I was driving down to Sarnia. Didn't get to stop at farmhouses on the 401 or 402 but there were lots of beautiful red barns and horses in the fields. Saw a lovely sunset in Port Huron!
Lucy
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